DRAGON QUEST III HD-2D Remake

使える職業とそうでない職業との格差がひどい。 特に今作から登場した魔物使いのビーストモードとまもの呼びがそれを使うことを前提として作られているのではと思うほど強い。そして賢者と盗賊の優遇も相変わらずで、戦士、僧侶、魔法使い、商人が微妙過ぎる。特に魔法職二つが死に職になっている。 正直やっていて徹底的に考え抜かれたゲームバランスとはお世辞にも言えない。 多分日本のゲーム史を語るうえで最重要と言っていい作品のリメイクがこの程度でいいわけがないのでどうしても制作会社の姿勢には疑問を持たざる得ない。なんというかドラクエ3を扱ってるっていう、もう一度世に問えるっていうワクワク感を制作陣からこのゲームからは感じなかったのがただただ残念。そりゃ往年のファンがやれば面白いよ？だってほとんど一緒なんだから。でもそれでいいならファミコンをベタ移植でもよかったんだよ、別に。

This game is all unfulfilled potential. I played the original dragon warrior 3 on the nes for hundreds of hours back when it first came out. If you get this because you want to experience something similar to that game you will be disappointed. Everything is changed so drastically the only way to approach this is as a different game entirely with the same story. There are tons of little things that throw the feel of the game or the polish of the game off. The western localization issues are the most well known but honestly these are the least of the problems. There are dozens of bad dialog lines in the game where you can tell they were going for a regional accent but all they really did was make the npc's talk in broken english with bad grammar and poor english word choices. Simple quality of life things are missing like being able to see what debuffs or buffs your characters have during combat (only visable during the choose action phase of combat), the inventory is badly managed and you can't see what classes can equip which items when looking at them in the inventory. The game is full of little annoyances like this that add up. One of the biggest failures is lack of a new game+. They include a post game that includes some high powered equipment that you essentially have almost no use for because the game is over. The only new game+ aspect is being able to bring over one character from your completed saves to a new game and that character is equipment locked. So it teases you with a bunch of great items that you barely get a chance to use and doesn't include the most basic new game+ concept of letting you play again with your past games items or a higher difficulty. Speaking of difficulty, this game is no where near the level of difficulty of the original, something fans of the original will find very disappointing. There are three settings with the first making the game stupidly easy to the point you actually can't die, the second being normal which is way easier than the original, and the supposed hard setting only really cutting down on your xp and gold gains after battle (if the fights are harder it was so minor i didn't even notice) which is not a difficulty setting so much as a tedious setting. And finally its $60 dollars. If the game was done right, with the polish and care it deserved, I could be convinced it was worth that. For what we actually got this is at best a 30 dollar game that should be picked up for half that to not feel like you were taken advantage of. Basically this game did not get the love it deserved as what is likely the most popular and beloved of all the classic dragon quest games. They did a quick and sloppy job of it and it will disappoint fans of the original as well as new fans who want a challenge and also want good replayability since it lacks new game+. Even the job system has no replayability since you can class change as many times as you want and literally make a party with every skill and spell in your first run. Its unfortunate you can't tell any of this before your two hour return window is up but hopefully this review helps other people with certain expectations for this game avoid wasting money on it.